Getting the platinum to the surface will take a long time in my opinion. So it won’t affect platinum prices much.
When it sank the platinum was worth 64 million. Today it is worth about 3 billion. This is a rough indicator for the inflation we have had since 1943. Though today platinum has more industrial uses than it did in 1943
Yup.
I used to make billions and billions of Schottky platinum silicide transistors.
During one Xmas vacation years ago, someone stole our $50k platinum target out of the stock room at TI.